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Webster 1913 Edition
Excision
1.
The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for
excision
. Atterbury.
2.
(Eccl.)
The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
3.
(Surg.)
The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
Dunglison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Excision
EXCIS'ION
,Noun.
1.
The cutting off of a person from his people; extirpation; destruction.The rabbins reckon three kinds of excision.
Definition 2024
excision
excision
English
Noun
excision (plural excisions)
- The deletion of some text during editing.
- (surgery) The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting.
- (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
- (topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.
Translations
removal of a tumor etc. but cutting
Middle French
Etymology
Noun
excision f (plural excisions)
- excision; removal by cutting
- 1549, Jean Tagault, Les institutions chirurgiques
- Quand le patient refuse ayde et remedes necessaires a la curation de la maladie, laquelle de soy est incurable, comme excision d'ung chancre qui occupe quelque membre.
- 1549, Jean Tagault, Les institutions chirurgiques